Organic electroluminescent device with light-transmissive optical compensation layer

• US 7,417,369 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2005
• Issued: 08/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Inventors: Tsai, Tze-Chien, Chen, Che-Jen
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams; Joseph L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): QUARTERMAN, KEVIN J
• Application Number:
  US11/215,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20060181201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,092 Days
• Field of Search: 313/498, 313/503, 313/504, 313/506, 313/512, 313/478, 313/110, 313/112, 313/113
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/3031 Two-side emission, e.g. transparent OLEDs [TOLED]
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/805 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/85 Arrangements for extracting light from the devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/805 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/875 Arrangements for extracting light from the devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/324 comprising aluminium, e.g. Alq3

Abstract

An organic electroluminescent device, a flat panel display, and a portable electronic device using the same are disclosed. The organic electroluminescent device comprises a substrate, a transparent anode disposed on the substrate, a transparent cathode disposed opposite the transparent anode, and an organic light emitting layer interposed between the transparent anode and the transparent cathode. The organic electroluminescent device further comprises a first light transmissive optical compensation layer interposed between the transparent anode and the substrate, wherein the first light transmissive optical compensation layer is substantially made of a transition metal oxide.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescent device (OELD), comprising:

a substrate;

a transparent anode disposed on the substrate;

a transparent cathode disposed opposite the transparent anode;

an organic light emitting layer interposed between the transparent anode and the transparent cathode;

a first light transmissive optical compensation layer interposed between the transparent anode and the substrate; and

a second light transmissive optical compensation layer disposed on the transparent cathode, wherein at least one of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the second light transmissive optical compensation layer comprises WO₃, Ta₂O₃, V₂O₅, CeO₂, Nb₂O₅, Gd₂O₃, Cr₂O₃, NiO, Bi₂O₃, SmO, Nd₂O₅ or combinations thereof.

2. The OELD of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the second light transmissive optical compensation layer has a complex index of refraction N=n−

ik, where n is an index of refraction less than or equal to about 3.5, k is an extinction coefficient less than or equal to about 0.2 at a wavelength of about 380 nm to about 780 nm, and i is an imaginary number.

3. The OELD of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the second light transmissive optical compensation layer comprises a single layer.

4. The OELD of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the second light transmissive optical compensation layer comprises multiple layers.

5. The OELD of claim 1, wherein at least one of the thickness of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the thickness of the second light transmissive optical compensation layer is less than about 10,000 Å

.

6. The OELD of claim 1, wherein at least one of the thickness of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the thickness of the second light transmissive optical compensation layer ranges from about 500 Å

to about 1,000 Å

.

7. The OELD of claim 1, wherein the transparent anode comprises ITO or IZO.

8. The OELD of claim 1, wherein the transparent cathode comprises ITO or IZO.

9. The OELD of claim 1, further comprising a hole injection layer interposed between the transparent anode and the organic light emitting layer.

10. The OELD of claim 1, further comprising:

an electron transport layer disposed adjacent to the transparent cathode; and

a hole transport layer disposed adjacent to the transparent anode.

11. The OELD of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first light transmissive optical compensation layer and the second light transmissive optical compensation layer is formed by E-beam deposition, thermal evaporation, molecular beam epitaxy, vapor phase epitaxy, or metal organic chemical vapor deposition.

12. A flat panel display comprising an organic electroluminescent device of claim 1.

13. A portable electronic device comprising an organic electroluminescent device of claim 1.